Partido Manggagawa joins the growing call for an immediate, independent, and impartial investigation into the Negros encounter that left 19 people dead, including a UP student and an independent media practitioner who reportedly were in the area for social research when the encounter happened.
The military's claim of a legitimate operation does not settle the matter. The reported killing of non-combatants raises grave concerns of possible violations of international humanitarian law. (…)

Though he has been dead for more than 100 years, Vladimir Lenin continues to stand at the centre of debates about modern Marxism for his leading role in the Russian Revolution, for his reputed strategic and tactical acumen, and for his vaunted political theories. Evaluating Lenin, however, is a complex task, because of the turbulent and complicated times in which he lived and all that followed. Exalted in the Soviet Union, vilified elsewhere, we must be discerning to discover the (…)

There are two levels of significance in the presence of the Pope, on an official visit, in Algeria: it serves the existing regime and reinforces its alignment with the theses of the neo-liberal, capitalist and imperialist West on the one hand. It opens a rift in the founding myth and the national narrative of the Algerian nation, on the other.
First, this visit undeniably serves the government of president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and army chief Saïd Chengriha. Diplomatically mistreated by (…)

Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance, California, raced through a Secret Service checkpoint in an attempt to attack President Donald Trump, members of his cabinet, and leaders of Congress, all gathered at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 26 at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. Agent succeeded in stopping him before he entered the ballroom where dinner was being served. Allen was armed with a pistol, a shotgun, and knives.
Allen is a college graduate with a (…)

À l'occasion du 40^e anniversaire de la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl (dimanche 26 avril), la BBU rend hommage aux victimes de l'industrie nucléaire et réclame à nouveau la sortie totale du nucléaire en Allemagne, mais aussi à l'échelle internationale. Lors de veillées, de réunions d'information ou encore de services religieux, des mouvements antinucléaires et d'autres organisations rappellent la catastrophe de Tchernobyl et mettent en garde contre les dangers actuels de l'industrie (…)